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...contention at season’s end, the team must avoid the long losing streaks that have plagued the team in Ivy play. Two years ago, Harvard dropped five straight games in February, while last season, it lost seven in a row on top of another seven game skid in non-league play. The pressure falls to the three seniors to keep the team strong should adversity arise this year, but they know what needs to be done...
...human. The audience will leave seeing a bit of humanity in them.RR: Do you have any advice for President-elect Barack Obama’s bodyguards so that the plot of assassinations ends here?SLL: I hope it does, or they’d have to rewrite the play. Avoid crazy people is a good start.RR: Have you avoided crazy actors?SLL: I wish. They’re crazy in a good way.RR: Who really shot JFK?SLL: I don’t know. I think it’s one of those crazy stories.Steven A. Travierso...
...Swarup into a structurally fascinating screenplay, but the film’s overarching influence seems to be Charles Dickens. Dickens’s London has given way to Mumbai, an overpopulated city torn between poverty and globalization. Jamal and Salim are a regular Oliver and Artful Dodger. They narrowly avoid danger at every turn and face down caricatured villains like Maman (Ankur Vikal), a creepy Michael Jackson look-alike who profits from the money his orphans bring in from the streets.The difference between the orphans in “Oliver Twist” and those in “Slumdog?...
...Obama seems determined to avoid the mistakes of Bill Clinton's chaotic transition in 1992, which helped set the stage for what turned out to be a rocky first year in office. Whereas Clinton put most of his early efforts into picking a diverse Cabinet that he said would look like America - and required three attempts to come up with a female Attorney General - Obama will initially focus on building his White House operation, much as Ronald Reagan did in 1980. Cabinet appointments are likely to begin coming by the end of the month, which is still early by recent...